Los Angeles Spoonie Collective

Los Angeles, California, United States

Bio

The Los Angeles Spoonie Collective is composed of disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill LGBTQIA+ community members within the Los Angeles area (Tongva land). Our zines touch on topics such as the intersections of disability and queerness, cultural heritage and our hobbies. We create zines to share our stories and to create disability visibility that is more diverse and inclusive. Self-publishing allows those of us who are marginalized to actually exercise free speech rights that are denied to us in mainstream spaces.

Zines

Up With Trans is a trans-centered zine about trans issues written by a disabled trans Latinx zinester, Lilac Maldonado. Other zines by Lilac include Access Granted, a guide to disability solidarity; Putting the I Back in Our Team, a zine about intersex solidarity; and CHEMA, a one-page zine about how their grandfather snuck in contraband for the Japanese folks in the CA internment camps. Both of Lilac's zines include illustrations by them. Purchase their zines at etsy.com/shop/BoldlyFemme. Prices: Up With Trans is $11, Access Granted is $11, CHEMA is $3.

Creating Safer Spaces is a zine about how to be an ally to the disabled community and was written by a disabled trans Latinx zinester, Rep (Laurent Corralez). Another zine by Rep is CRIPPUNX, a submission-based zine about being disabled in the punk scene. Find free audio recordings of their poetry, zines and punk podcast BIPOC Punk Rock at soundcloud.com/angstydisabledqueer. Read CRIPPUNX for free at here. Prices: Creating Safer Spaces is $4, CRIPPUNX is $6.

Writer Prism Power Makeup is a Sailor Moon fanzine about growing up as a trans and disabled Sailor Moon fan which was written by Hatfield System. System also wrote three volumes of Many Tales, zines about living with dissociative Identity Disorder. Email System about purchasing a zine at namihatfield@yahoo.com. Prices: $5 per full size zine, $12 for three, and $15 for four. $2 for the minizine or free if desired with a purchase of 3+ zines.

How to Breathe Fire is a chapbook written by a neurodivergent Black femme gnc poet, Tasha Fierce. Tasha also wrote a submission-based zine, Goddess of the Modern World: A QTBIFOC Guide to Surviving Academia. Buy zines at tashafierce.com. Prices: How to Breathe Fire is $5, Goddess of the Modern World is $6.

The last few zines are the three volumes of Hairy Femme Mother, a submission-based zine by a Latinx disabled zinester, Jen Venegas. The zines are about femmes with body hair. Buy their zines at etsy.com/shop/MagpiesforMoons. Prices: Hairy Femme Mother is $5.

All the zines are written by LA Spoonie Collective members.